The Blé de France simulation allows you to live a trading day in financial markets.

SimTrade proposes a simulation of firms and markets on the basis of a predefined scenario. During the simulation, news about Blé de France will arrive on the market. You can then buy and sell Blé de France stocks via the SimTrade trading platform.

At the beginning of the simulation, you have an account with 100,000 euros of cash and 1,000 Blé de France stocks.

Your objective for this simulation is to maximize your trading gains.

The duration of the simulation is initially set to 10 minutes, which corresponds to a day of 24 hours. With the TimeLine, you will be able to increase or decrease the simulation speed at anytime during the simulation.

Blé de France is a firm, which produces wheat in different regions of France. Its clients are mainly French food-processing firms (in particular firms producing buns for fast foods). It also exports part of its grain crop on the international wheat market.

The firm was created in 1780 by the Turgot de la Beauce brothers, nephews of the famous financial controller of the King of France Louis XVI. The firm is still managed by a descendant of the founders, Charles-Louis Turgot de la Beauce, who is an emblem of the cereal industry.

Blé de France (code : BDF) was introduced in the French stock market in the 1970s. During the past few years, its stock price soared. This strong increase can be partly explained by the strong the increase of the wheat prices at the world level.

The BDF stock is currently traded around 100 euros.

Today, at 11 am (French time), Blé de France (BDF) invites its shareholders for its annual General Meeting. Charles-Louis Turgot de la Beauce, President of Blé de France, will announce the financial results and will present the business perspectives of the firm.

A dozen of financial analysts follow the BDF stock and participate to the market consensus. The market expects earnings per share of 10 euros.

Large food-processing firms may also be interested in Blé de France in order to penetrate the sector. Rumours are flying around and it should be clearer by the end of the day.

What is the firm going to anounce? How the market will react? And especially how will you react? That is the question...